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I'm burning my bras again....
meg_evonne:
This was e-mailed to me this AM from shewrites.com. Very nice supportive site for women writers. I'm not sure they are genre friendly but this really bugs the heck out of me. E-mail if your bras just hit the fire.
And men...stop gawking and e-mail also!
A message to all members of She Writes
As the old saying goes, "almost" only counts in horseshoes and handgrenades, and it really gets you nowhere with email addresses. A few days ago I got all fired up about the 2010 "Best American" anthology editors being all white dudes, and asked everyone on the network to send an email to Lori Glazer, head of publicity at HMH, nominating some of those oh-so-hard-to-find women writers and writers of color for the jobs in 2011. (If you want to get up to speed on the action, check out my blog, as well as the NYT article and awesome comment thread that resulted from it.) But the email address I had for Lori was just a tiny bit wrong, and that means that HMH has not gotten any of your emails! And they need to get them, because they need to know that we are paying attention, and that saying that the all-white-dudeness of these editorships is simply a "coincidence" is not good enough. They also need to know that women writers and writers of color are not, in fact, hard to find, and (in fact!) that if you piss them off they will flood your inbox but good.
So please, if you got a bounce back, try again. And if you didn't send an email to Lori already, do it now.
lori.glazer@hmhpub.com
edited for their site and did I just say 'supportive site' right after that title. You guys you know my mind doesn't work that way, well yeah it does, but its unconscious mind connections of some sort. Anyway leaving it for the ha ha moment. Meg
http://www.shewrites.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network
Kali:
So, it being a coincidence isn't good enough? So her whole argument here is even if these white dudes really WERE the best, they should throw a chick or a black dude up there just because? Even if they weren't the best?
Sorry. I'll support her righteous indignation if she has something substantive to go on, not just "OMG no chicks".
meg_evonne:
My fault. Go to the site and you'll get the connections to the NYT article etc. I's a lousy poster when in a steam. Kali do you really believe that the top writers of 2010 were all male and white?
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Kali on March 01, 2010, 04:11:17 PM ---So, it being a coincidence isn't good enough? So her whole argument here is even if these white dudes really WERE the best, they should throw a chick or a black dude up there just because? Even if they weren't the best?
--- End quote ---
It would seem to me that the failure mode of that would be never being able to tell if one were being included on the actual quality of one's work or just as a token.
meg_evonne:
uhm tough crowd. Let it rest a bit and let me know what you think.
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